5 Healthy Edible Flowers For Landscaping
Discover how fun things become when entertaining family and friends with edible flowers straight from your very own garden.
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Local Food: Organic or Chemical Free?
If you are a family who prefers clean food without chemicals, then you’ve probably sought out organic foods. This is great with the exception that the organic food you are likely to be eating has traveled across the countryside to get to your plate. What’s more is that it is most likely to have been…
7 Frugal Kitchen Tips
The old saying “waste not, want not” comes to mind when dealing with frugality in the kitchen. In our modern day, kitchen waste is through the roof. People literally throw hundreds of dollars away every year by not making use of what they already have. With seven children and two adults living in our home…
Keep The Garden Wild And Educate Your Child
The place for fanciful dreams and imaginations are set free in the garden for you and me. To recall how a child learns is to take notice of all their little senses. They pick up every sound as though it tickles their ears. They touch and smell and pick apart flowers. The yearning to catch…
Heirloom Cabbages For A More Prosperous New Year
The folklore that surrounds us at New Years certainly revolves around a very long history of preparing cabbages and black-eyed-peas. Other cultures from around the world all take a keen interest in preparing special dishes to be served on the first day of the New Year. It seems to me that what could be deemed…
The Best Recycled Materials to Build With
Building or renovating a home can be a costly endeavor from both an expense and environmental perspective. Using recycled building materials can reduce cost, lessen the carbon footprint of the project, reduce landfill space by reusing re-purposed materials, and can even add value for buyers in the market for an Eco-friendly home.
Scents of Rosemary Bring Meaning To Christmas
I love my herbs as much as my heirlooms for the folklore and the history. Have you ever noticed all the pretty little Rosemary Christmas Tree Topiary’s at the market for the Holiday’s? I’ve always thought they make such splendid little trees for Christmas. There are tales told of Rosemary as far back as biblical…
Disaster Prep Tips For Green Families
Sustainable, responsible ways to keep your family ready.
Committed To Saving Seeds: An Interview With Dirt to Dinner
One of my favorite gardens to visit is From Dirt to Dinner located in San Jose California. The garden’s curator, Julianne Idleman will be sure to show us all how to take the lawn out of the yard and grow food in its stead. Growing both in front and back of her home and everywhere…
Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening Made Simple
To better understand sustainable agriculture in its most simplistic terms we can divide the Agricultural Growing Methods into 3 types of farming practices Conventional Growing Method First, there is conventional farming that relies on the heavy use of synthetic chemicals fertilizers. Without them, nothing would grow. The soil has become void of any beneficial properties…